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Raised Christian, converted by internet
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Raised Christian, converted by internet
I spent much of my childhood going to a baptist church that my grandmother wanted me to go to. Of course being a child, and loving my grandmother, what possible reason could I have to say no? After all, I was fed all kinds of stories about Jesus' love, and there are some genuinely good life lessons that can be found in the bible. Just ignore the parts about slavery, and treating women as inferior, and killing people for just about anything that bible says is wrong...It's a book about love, peace, and kindness, you see.

My parents were not religious, but didn't hold me back, except for one time when my mother said going to some religious event four days a week was a bit much.

It was really until my adulthood, when my parents decided to bring the internet to our home, that I began to talk to people with divergent views from my own. People from outside my bubble. Now before this, I already knew about some of the nastier parts of the bible, but everyone around me just said I was interpreting it wrong, or those parts were just a "cultural" thing. When I met people online that actually shared my views, it drew me out of my bubble.

There are videos talking about things pertaining to the bible that you will never hear in sunday school. Things that make christianity seem a lot like any other religion. So now I'm an atheist. I also just call the guy Yaweh now. God is not a personal pronoun. My name is not Human. I didn't call my former pets Dog.

I still have a good relationship with my grandmother, though of course she worries about me going to hell. My sister was raised in the same thing too, and she stuck with it. They're teaching the nieces christianity too. The cycle continues.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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Raised Christian, converted by internet - by Chad32 - November 21, 2013 at 12:27 pm
RE: Raised Christian, converted by internet - by Mister Agenda - November 21, 2013 at 12:31 pm
RE: Raised Christian, converted by internet - by Minimalist - November 21, 2013 at 12:36 pm
RE: Raised Christian, converted by internet - by Chad32 - November 21, 2013 at 12:47 pm
RE: Raised Christian, converted by internet - by LastPoet - November 21, 2013 at 12:45 pm
RE: Raised Christian, converted by internet - by The Valkyrie - November 21, 2013 at 2:44 pm
RE: Raised Christian, converted by internet - by Chad32 - November 21, 2013 at 3:14 pm
RE: Raised Christian, converted by internet - by The Valkyrie - November 21, 2013 at 3:31 pm
RE: Raised Christian, converted by internet - by Chad32 - November 21, 2013 at 3:37 pm
RE: Raised Christian, converted by internet - by Chad32 - November 21, 2013 at 3:51 pm
RE: Raised Christian, converted by internet - by Chad32 - November 21, 2013 at 6:45 pm
RE: Raised Christian, converted by internet - by Brian37 - November 21, 2013 at 6:49 pm
RE: Raised Christian, converted by internet - by Brian37 - November 21, 2013 at 6:44 pm
RE: Raised Christian, converted by internet - by Yahweh - November 22, 2013 at 5:15 pm
RE: Raised Christian, converted by internet - by Chad32 - November 22, 2013 at 5:26 pm
RE: Raised Christian, converted by internet - by Yahweh - November 22, 2013 at 10:11 pm
RE: Raised Christian, converted by internet - by Minimalist - November 22, 2013 at 9:01 pm
RE: Raised Christian, converted by internet - by Chad32 - November 22, 2013 at 10:22 pm
RE: Raised Christian, converted by internet - by Interviewer - December 11, 2013 at 6:24 pm
RE: Raised Christian, converted by internet - by Chad32 - December 11, 2013 at 7:17 pm
RE: Raised Christian, converted by internet - by Tripwire - January 31, 2014 at 12:19 am
RE: Raised Christian, converted by internet - by Chad32 - January 31, 2014 at 12:27 am
RE: Raised Christian, converted by internet - by Tripwire - January 31, 2014 at 12:47 am

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